5 Pennsylvania College Football Players Charged in Vicious Assault
Their victim is intensive care with severe brain trauma.
The California University of Pennsylvania president Gerladine Jones said, “Behavior has consequences.”
She should be fired.
5 College Football Players Charged in Assault
Five football players from a state university in western Pennsylvania were arrested and suspended from the school after police say they beat and stomped a man outside an off-campus restaurant, then fled yelling “Football strong!” The victim was in intensive care Friday with severe brain trauma.
The California University of Pennsylvania players attacked Lewis Campbell, 30, of West Chester, as he was trying to stop an argument between his girlfriend and a player at about 2 a.m. Thursday, police said.
Witnesses heard the players yelling “Football strong!” as they fled to a car and Campbell lay unconscious, police said.
The university declared later Thursday that its Division II football team would forfeit Saturday’s against Gannon University, jeopardizing its best season in three years.
“Behavior has consequences,” the university’s interim president, Geraldine Jones, said in a statement.
Comments
“She should be fired.”
Why? Did you misinterpret her comment that “decisions have consequences”?
Here it is in context, from the university website:
“California University does not tolerate violent behavior, and the five student-athletes charged in connection with this incident will face University sanctions, along with any penalties imposed by law.
The police investigation is continuing, and the rights of these accused students will be upheld. But in light of these allegations, I asked Coach Kellar to cancel Saturday’s game. Behavior has consequences, and all Cal U students, including student-athletes, must abide by our Student Code of Conduct if they wish to remain a part of our campus community.“
link: http://www.calu.edu/news/press-releases/2014/10/presidents-message.htm
Pst314, it was hyperbole on my part (obviously). The point I was trying to illustrate is that the university president can’t even bring herself to condemn–in outright, straightforward language–the five players. Why not? What would the consequences of this behavior be? It’s mystifying.
This article doesn’t make sense… it’s clear the College President was speaking about her players when she said actions have consequences.
Why would she need to be fired?
Hell, she even cancelled the football game.
“Viscous”?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/viscous
A sticky bit of business–particularly since a person was seriously injured.
A damned shame when “educators” take so little care is their writing.
(I can find no other mention of the incident on-line.)